Emuparadise data breach: 1.1M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-06-09
In April 2018, the self-proclaimed "biggest retro gaming website on earth", Emuparadise, suffered a data breach. The compromised vBulletin forum exposed 1.1 million email addresses, IP address, usernames and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Apr 1, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jun 9, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Emuparadise account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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